[Python-Dev] PEP 292, Simpler String Substitutions

Delaney, Timothy tdelaney@avaya.com
Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:31:53 +1000


> From: barry@zope.com [mailto:barry@zope.com]
>=20
> >>>>> "MS" =3D=3D Martin Sj=F6gren <martin@strakt.com> writes:
>=20
>     MS> What's the advantage of using ${name} and ${country} instead?
>=20
> There's a lot of empirical evidence that %(name)s is quite error
> prone.

Perhaps an unadorned %(name) should default to %(name)s?

Tim Delaney